Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-22
A PARTISAN PURPOSE.

The Republican press is laying great
stress just now upon the alleged fact that
the strength of the so-called Labor party
is being largely drawn from the
Democratic organization. This is
view Manufactured for the occasion.
1t is purely party expression,
and is replete with partisan in
stincts. The Democracy and the Nation
has everything to hope from the vote OF
the laboring man, and nothing TO fear
from the efforts of the alleged Labor or
ganization. The so-called Labor party is
a political mushroom OF the most fleeting
character. 1t is a thing of shreds and
patches "a weak assemblage OF
the most incongruous elements. 1t
has no natural cohesion. Speedy dis
solution is its inherent characteristic. 1t
is marshalled under many opposing ban
ners, and the legends borne by those
banners are of the most ephemeral
blazony Renegade Knights of Labor,
Anarchists and Socialists, in all of the
various shades and phases OF
their visionary beliefs, are drawn
upon in the formation of
this extraordinary political hodge
podge. The organization is the home OF
isms, and the refuge Of cranks. The
very name of the organization has been
stolen, and is an insult to the Nation.
The honest, industrious, intelligent and
powerful labor element of the country
has nothing in common with
this alleged Labor party. Its strong
est opponent is the sentiment of the
people, and in the face of this sentiment
the importation from the Anarchial and
Socialistic slums of Europe cannot long
exist. The power of the so-called Labor
party lies in the sewers of the great cities
is drawn from an organization of riff
raft, whose members never did an honest
days work in their lives. The organi-
cation is controlled by the prescribed
murderers of Europe. Its political
creed is the manufacture of bombs, and
the application of the ethics of assassina-
ton. 1t can only live in opportunity,
and that opportunity is foreign to Ameri-
can soil. The Chicago elections amply
proved this. Chicago was the head
quarters Of these gentry who are mas
querading under the name of Labor. In
the slums of that great city was
built the seat OF their power. There
existed the Lehr Wehr Verein, the armed
section of the Anarchists of America. If
the organization had any natural cohe-
sion, Chicago was the place to display it.
What was the result? The people, the
true laboring class, banded together
party was overthrown in the
chosen place of its own strength.
Its boastful utterances were suddenly
merged into the wall of disaster, and the
party went to pieces at once. "Save
himself who can" was now the Labor"
cry. The armed section, late so insolent,
was hastily disbanded, and the demor-
alization of the party in Chicago is COM
plete. As in Chicago, so will
it be elsewhere. The American
laboring man is opposed by
nature to the imported Labor" method,
and will impress his seal of condemna-
ton upon it every time he goes to the
ballot box. The true labor party of the
United States is the Democratic party.
The people realize that the Democratic
party has always been their friend in the
past. They recognize in it the friend Of
the future. 1t is the party of the people
The fiber of the one is entwined with
that of the other. Democracy and the
people mean one and the same thing,
and all attempts to separate them must
be futile.